Summer Festival of Bridge Blog 5

Posted 17 January 2010 by Ron

Try this problem:

East dealer : Both vulnerable

West	North	East	South
- - -	- - -	1	Pass
2	3	3 (1)	Pass
?

(1) Purely competitive, no game interes

What would you do as West with:

(Solution later)

The results of Stage 2 of the Seniors:

1.	NEILL	260
2.	NOBLE	255
3.	LILLEY	252
4.	STUART	242
5.	HIRST	228
6.	KALMIN	208

Our team played poorly in at least three of the five matches. With one round to go, we led the field, one VP ahead of NOBLE. NEILL had an easy last match and duly won convincingly. We lost our last round by 9 Imps, 13-17 VPs to miss the final. The loss was deserved with each of our pairs missing a simple defence to defeat the opposition game.

In the Women’s semis, HOFFMAN beat NEALE by 169-97 and RICHARDSON beat HAVAS by 149-140.

For more results, see the www.abf.com.au website.

Back to today’s problem:

Although discipline says that West should pass East’s non-invitational 3, this was a time to breach discipline. West has two aces and a singleton in the opponents’ suit. This makes the hand more like an 11 pointer than 6-9. This was the full deal from the Seniors, Stage 2, Round 3:

East dealer : Both vulnerable

West	North	East	South
- - -	- - -	1	Pass
2	3	3 (1)	Pass
4	Pass	Pass	Pass

(1) Purely competitive, no game interes

At the other table the bidding was identical except that South bid 4 over 3. West went on to 4. Both declarers made eleven tricks. No swing.

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